Skill Level Beginners + | Ages 18+
Cost $58 NUMU Members

NUMU is excited to partner again with Santa Cruz based artist, Luz Donahue. In 2020, Luz held a wonderful in-person workshop at NUMU introducing students to abstract expressionism. Luz’ work is currently featured in our current exhibition, Art in the Time of Corona. We love working with Luz and are excited to share this opportunity exclusively for NUMU members. Registration is taken directly through Luz’s website and NUMU members also receive a special discount and some one-one time! This is more than an art making class, it’s about connecting with your inner artist by transposing some of your unique experiences, emotions, and processes into art. This class can also be great to offer to someone as a gift. Or, if you’re in a partnership with someone, it can be a great activity to do with your partner and take some time to explore your creativity with your partner while gifting yourselves the space to reflect on the year together.

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Skill Level Beginners + | Ages: Any
Cost $110* General | $100* NUMU Members

Learn to create a beautiful garden style centerpiece inspired by the way flowers grow naturally in nature. We will be using a foam free method that you can easily recreate on your own at home. I will teach you tips for using common flowers you can easily find at your local grocery store to create beautiful arrangements year around.

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Skill Level Beginners+  | Ages: 16+
Cost $185* General | $175* NUMU Members
*No Materials Fee (materials supplied by participants)
Materials List

Gouache is an overlooked watercolor medium that has amazing versatility and can transcend the boundaries of many other mediums. It can wash like watercolor, blend like an opaque oil, and dry brush like acrylic. Best of all it sidesteps the need to plan and reserve whites as in watercolor. It’s water soluble nature allows for tremendous travel capability and setup ease and clean up. Since it’s dry time is fast, as in watercolor, you can paint, mat, frame and hang in a day. This introduction to gouache will cover its many strengths, from reintroducing lights and delicious velvety matte finish, to intensely rich pigments and set up ease.

Materials must be supplied by participants. Materials list sent upon registration.

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Skill Level Beginners +
Cost $135* General | $125* NUMU Members
*$25 Materials Fee

In this one day workshop, you will delight and discover Golden Paints, Gels and Pastes. You will use four distinct painting approaches, one for each season. Techniques and methods will follow the metaphor of the seasons as our poetic thread. We’ll honor, exaggerate and romanticize weather and the moods of the seasons. Experience with paint and your mind, the shifts and drifts, flows and cycles, sensations that stir your heart.

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Skill Level Beginners + | Ages: Any
Cost $210* General | $200* NUMU Members
*No Materials Fee Required

Painting from the heart and loosening up are fundamentals of this class. We work fast and loose, layering our canvas with color, blocking in shapes, and adding definition to create beautiful masterpieces.

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Skill Level Beginners +  | Ages: 14 +
Cost $100* General | $90* NUMU Members
$10 Materials Fee collected first day of class

Don’t you love getting a beautiful card in the mail? Come learn how to make your own unique greeting cards using easy-to learn techniques and unusual materials, like matchboxes, glass beads, tags, buttons and more. You’ll learn 10 creative card-making techniques. You’ll leave the workshop with 10 one-of-a-kind cards you can send to friends or give as gifts.

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Skill Level Beginners+  | Ages: Teens-Adults
Cost $210* General | $200* NUMU Members
$25 materials fee collected on the first day of the workshop

Gilding is the process of applying metal leaf to a surface. This contemporary approach to an ancient process allows for makers from every background to explore a painterly approach to using metal leaf. Learn the technical aspects of this gilding technique in this one-day class. Gilding can be used on any material surface from paper to wood to stone and in any application from fine art drawings on Japanese paper to holiday cards!

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Skill Level Beginners + | Ages: 11+
Cost $65* General | $55* NUMU Members
*$10 Materials Fee due to the the instructor by the start of the workshop

Learn how to paint your pet's portrait on an 11x14” pre-sketched canvas from your favorite photo! Students will be led step-by-step with easy to follow techniques and one-on-one instruction to turn their pet's portrait into a one-of-a-kind work of art to cherish or give as a gift. One pet per canvas. Acrylic based. All artist levels welcome! Photo link will be supplied at registration.

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Skill Level Beginners +  | Ages: 14 +
Cost $120* General | $100* NUMU Members
$10 Materials Fee collected first day of class

Come learn how to make tiny works of art using matchboxes. We’ll make mini-altars, books, shadowboxes, pop-ups and more! You’ll be guided through each project with easy-to-follow demonstrations. Most materials will be provided.

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Skill Level Beginners +  | Ages: 14 +
Cost $75* General | $65* NUMU Members
*Materials Fee Included with Registration

Come learn a new way to interact with watercolor painting. Explore your own visual voice and find mindfulness by through play. If you've never tried painting before, this process will still be fun for you. If you're a seasoned painter you'll get a chance to explore another way of experiencing your practice. Students will create several paintings during this class without any planning or goals.

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Skill Level Beginners+  | Ages: 11+
Cost $65* General | $55* NUMU Members
$10 Materials Fee collected first day of class

Learn how to paint your pet's portrait on an 11x14” pre-sketched canvas from your favorite photo! Students will be led step-by-step with easy to follow techniques and one-on-one instruction to turn their pet's portrait into a one-of-a-kind work of art to cherish or give as a gift. One pet per canvas. Acrylic based. All artist levels welcome! Photo link will be supplied at registration.

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Collage Animal Portraits with Samuel Price

Date Sun, October 27th |  11 am - 4pm
Skill Level Beginners +  | Ages: 14 +
Cost $120* General | $100* NUMU Members
$25 Materials Fee collected first day of class
This workshop has sold-out, join the waitlist.

Craft away the afternoon and create a handmade portrait of your favorite animal. Students will focus on creating a unique animal portrait using the "square by square" technique and creating life-like paper collage portraits from simple everyday materials. Students will focus on creating a unique animal portrait using the "square by square" technique and creating life-like paper collage portraits from simple everyday materials.

About the Instructor
Samuel Price is a San Francisco-based artist who specializes in creating and teaching collage and mixed media art techniques. Sam is best known for handcrafting large paper collage animal portraits and his shown his work throughout the Bay Area over the last ten years. Follow Samuel on Instagram and Facebook.

*All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. A minimum registration of 6 students is required to offer this workshop. If the minimum requirement is not met, you will receive a cancellation notice one week before the program date. 

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Beginner’s Wire-Wrap Jewelry Workshop with Kathryn Janoff

Date Cancelled
Skill Level Beginning - Advanced  | Ages: 18 +
Cost $70* General | $50* NUMU Members
$20 Materials Fee collected on the day of the workshop

Dive head first into the eclectic world of wire-wrap jewelry design led by Blue Orb Jewelry artist and designer, Kathryn Janoff. In this workshop, students will create two pairs of  “pierced-ear” earrings that explore the basics of jewelry-making including, earring design development, material experimentation, and current trend exploration. Bring a friend and have fun designing timeless works of wearable art.

About the Instructor:
Kathryn Janoff is a local artist who designs and crafts her unique jewelry under the name of Blue Orb Gallery. Her love of natural gemstones and art glass, Czech glass, color, and pattern, goes way back to childhood and has influenced her many original designs. Blue Orb Jewelry is featured in the NUMU museum store. Can’t get enough of Kathy’s work? Follow her on Instagram.

*All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. A minimum registration of 8 students is required to offer this workshop. If the minimum requirement is not met, you will receive a cancellation notice one week before the program date. 

Shadowbox Altar Workshop with Kit Davey

Date Sunday, Sept 8th, 2019  | 11am-3pm
Skill Level No Experience Required | Ages: 14+
Cost $120* General | $100* NUMU Members
$10 Materials Fee collected the first day of class

Unveil the secrets to construct your own one-of-a-kind, 3-dimensional shadowbox altar led by Bay Area Found Objects artist, Kit Davey. Using cigar boxes as the core of the altars, students will apply layers of paper and found objects to create depth and develop a unique narrative resulting in an original work of art.  No art experience necessary!

Materials included with $10 fee: Cigar boxes, assorted papers, glues and some 3-dimensional items and embellishments.

About the Instructor:

Kit Davey is a Redwood City artist who specializes in book and paper arts.  Visit her website to see more of her work: www.Found-Object-Art.com, or follow her on Instagram:  www.Instagram.com/daveykit.

*All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable. A minimum registration of 7 students is required to offer this workshop. If the minimum requirement is not met, you will receive a cancellation notice one week before the program date. 

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Hand Painted Leather Wallet Workshop with Terry McInerney

This workshop has been CANCELLED
Date Sun, July 21st |  10 am - 4pm
Skill Level No Experience Necessary  | Ages: 18 +
Cost $95* General | $75* NUMU Members
$50 Materials Fee collected first day of class

Ever wanted to work with leather but don't know where to start? This is the class for you. Join us for the Hand Painted Leather Wallet Workshop led by Santa Cruz based artist, Terry McInerney. Students will discover the fundamentals and techniques of leather work including cutting, dying, stitching and riveting. Water based dyes will be used to paint these unique, one-of-a-kind wallets. By the end of the workshop, students will leave with up to two hand dyed wallets in addition to the knowledge and skills to continue this practice at home. A resource list of where to find leather working supplies will be provided upon departure.

About the Instructor:
Terry McInerney is a veteran of leather working artist with 10 years of experience. She creates and sells one of a kind leather bags and accessories under her brand name, “Nuala”. Terry’s studio is located at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz where she creates her leather goods and welcomes visitors to check out her work and process. Follow Terry on Facebook and Instagram.

*All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. Materials Include: Quality vegetable tanned leather, solid brass hardware, design templates, water based leather dyes and a list of resources for leather working supplies upon departure.

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Curiously Strong:  Collage Bookmaking in an Altoids Tin with Kit Davey - CLASS FULL-

Sunday, March 31, 2019  | 11am-3pm

Skill Level: No Experience Required | Ages: 14+

Fee: NUMU Members: $100 | General: $120

A $7 Materials Fee will be collected by instructor the day of workshop.

All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable

Join us as we transform an Altoids Tin into an artistic, one of a kind, container for an original mini accordion book. Students will create covers and pages for their books, then add beautiful book garnishes such from stitchery embellishments, and pop -ups to book-within-a-book. This workshop is suitable for artists of all skill sets and abilities.

The instructor will provide tins, special glue, pre-cut book board, an array of colorful paper and collage images for students to use in their own creations.

About the Instructor:

Kit Davey is a Redwood City artist who specializes in book and paper arts.  Visit her website to see more of her work: www.Found-Object-Art.com, or follow her on Instagram:  www.Instagram.com/daveykit.

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—Canceled—Takbon Texture Printmaking with Cindy Davis

Sunday, November 4  | 10:30am-4:30pm
Skill Level: Beginner + | Ages: 16 +

Fee: NUMU Member: $100  | General: $120
All Materials Included with Tuition

All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable.

Explore the ancient process of Takbon, a traditional Korean printmaking technique for transferring the textures of objects onto paper. The result is similar to a rubbing, but instead of using friction and a crayon or charcoal, an inked dauber is tapped on the surface of the paper. This gentle method of tapping reveals minute details and allows for the arrangement of different objects in a single print. Novice and experienced printmakers  are invited to discover this unique approach to printmaking and experiment a variety of shape and texture combinations using natural objects, such as leaves, flat seashells, large feathers, as well as coins, buttons, keys, ceramic tiles, anything with texture and depth! Students are encouraged to bring a favorite short poem or haiku, which can be printed with an embossing label maker and illustrated. By the end of the workshop, students will take home 6-8 prints and a new found appreciation of an ancient art form. 

About the Instructor:

Cindy Davis was introduced to printmaking while staying in Perugia, Italy where she became a student of artist and Franciscan Padre Diego Donati. Cindy helped form a print cooperative in Columbus Ohio, where for 20 years she has taught numerous classes in a variety of techniques. 

Abstract Expressive Painting with Zoya Scholis

Sunday, October 7, 2018  

11am-3pm  | Skill Level: Beginner + | Ages: 18+

Fee: NUMU Members: $135 | General: $155

All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable

Zoya Scholis is an actively exhibiting painter, who dedicates herself to leading Art for Personal Growth Workshops around the Bay Area. Her teaching style includes movement, improv games and music to enhance learning and creative inspiration. This painting and movement workshop is inspired by the American Abstract expressionist, Joan Mitchell. Students will learn about the life and work of this groundbreaking artist and the motivation behind her painting style. In this workshop, students will be encouraged to use use full range of motion and emotion to work loose marks expressively. Fundamentally it's about expressing life energy and real emotions through the style of abstract expressionism painting.

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10-Week Figure Drawing Workshop with Warren Chang

Fridays |  September 28 thru December 14 | 3:30pm-6:30pm
* No class Friday November 9th & 23rd 

Skill Level: Beginner + | Ages: 16+

Fee: NUMU Member: $450  | General: $480

All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferable

Develop or expand your skills in drawing the human figure at this 10 week Figure Drawing workshop series led by acclaimed Monterey Bay Area artist, Warren Chang. The workshop will offer a comprehensive guide to rendering the human figure with an emphasis on focusing on the head and hands and study breakdowns of the individual features of the face and the nude figure. Students will also explore the fundamentals of tonal drawing in charcoal and light and shadow or “Chiaroscuro”.  

About the Instructor:

Warren Chang is an award-winning Monterey Bay Area artist with over 30 years of experience as a professional illustrator and fine artist. Chang is most known for his arresting narrative paintings of farmworkers from the Monterey County area. NUMU will be presenting an exhibition of Chang's paintings in January 2019. Learn more about Warren here.

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CANCELLED Michael Azgour  |  Expressive Interpretations of the Figure in Environment

Saturday, January 20th, 2018  |  10 am-1 pm  |  Skill Level: Beginner +

Member $95  |  General  $100

Class fees are non-transferrable or refundable

In this high-energy workshop, students will break the boundaries by prioritizing abstraction and intuitive paint application. With a focus on major concepts including: composition, figure-ground relationship, and process, students will have access to live feedback from the instructor as concepts are being reinforced through demonstrations and group discussion. This workshop is open to students of all skill levels.

Michael Azgour is an actively exhibiting artist, whose work addresses concepts related to images in contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative expressive representation with geometric abstraction, reflecting upon memory, technology, and the human condition. Azgour’s award-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. Michael teaches drawing and painting courses at Stanford University.

Students are responsible for providing their own materials. A materials list will be provided upon registration.

Indigo Dye Drop-In Workshop

Friday, December 15  |  1pm-5pm  |  Ages 13+

$25 Members, $30 General, includes materials

Explore the basics of dyeing indigo, learn new techniques for folding, twisting, tying and clamping fabric, then practice creating patterns and varying color depth, and your designs will be completely individual. Each participant will be provided with one yard of muslin, however participants are encouraged to bring their own un-dyed cotton, linen, or silk fabrics as well, including t-shirts and napkins. Please wear clothes you don't mind getting messy, as indigo will permanently stain fabrics.

Indigo Dye Night: Holiday Edition

Thursday, December 14th | 5pm-8pm  | Ages 13+

Advance Ticket Purchase (one week prior): $50 Member | $55 General | includes materials

At the Door: $60 Members | $65 General | includes materials

It’s that time of the year!  Time to whittle down your holiday gift checklist!  Get your dye on at NUMU’s Indigo Dye Night: Holiday Edition, Thursday December 14th, 5:00-8:00pm.

Maximum Participants 12. Pre-register early to ensure a spot in the class. Class fees are non-refundable. This class is suitable for beginners as well as more advanced participants.  A no-host wine bar will be provided. $5 per glass.

In this in depth three-hour workshop lead by our expert resident indigo dye artist, Zoë Umholtz, you’ll explore the basics of indigo dyeing, including unique techniques for folding, twisting, tying, clamping fabric, creating patterns and varying color depth resulting in designs that are wholly unique to your making. You’ll receive one yard of muslin, but we encourage you to bring multiples of un-dyed and pre-washed cotton, linen, silk fabrics, t-shirts, napkins, table linens, scarves, socks, make-up bags, and much more to complete your holiday gift list. The sky’s the limit in creating that perfect gift for your special someone, or for yourself. Please wear clothes you don't mind getting messy, as indigo will permanently stain fabrics.

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Indigo Dye Drop-In Workshop

Friday, December 1  |  1pm-5pm  |  Ages 13+

$25 Members, $30 General, includes materials

Explore the basics of dyeing indigo, learn new techniques for folding, twisting, tying and clamping fabric, then practice creating patterns and varying color depth, and your designs will be completely individual. Each participant will be provided with one yard of muslin, however participants are encouraged to bring their own un-dyed cotton, linen, or silk fabrics as well, including t-shirts and napkins. Please wear clothes you don't mind getting messy, as indigo will permanently stain fabrics.